Anthony Doerr's "All The Light We Cannot See" is a wide-ranging novel of Europe in World War II. As it switches between Paris and Germany, the reader senses that the sadness and helplessness these characters face are not only products of the war, but all-too-universal emotions. The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award and has now won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Here are 33 vocabulary words from an excerpt from the novel. The complete excerpt can be read here.
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